LANCASTER, Pa. - Franklin & Marshall Professor Emerita of French Sarah White will present a reading from her book Cleopatra Haunts the Hudson, on Thursday, Sept. 20, at 8 p.m. in Franklin & Marshall's Philadelphia Alumni Writers House. The reading, co-sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies Program, is free and open to the public.
White retired in 1999 after 23 years at F&M. Her study of Romance literature, especially from the medieval period, informs her poetry, memoir, tales, translations, and libretti. Her verse has appeared in the Paris Review, Harvard Review, OC (a Toulouse journal of Occitan letters) and other magazines, and has been set to music by Kristina Boerger, John Carbon, and Tanya Leon. Prose writings include a memoir chapter, The Jews of Spain, published in Southwest Review, and she is co-translator of Songs of the Women Troubadours (Bruckner et al., Garland Press, 2000). She has been a Fellow of Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The MacDowell Colony. -30- |
